From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-26 15:47:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!west.cox.net!cox.net!p01!news2.central.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D6AAFC8.5090003@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? References: <3D66792F.F77550E@san.rr.com> <4519e058.0208260614.13d33ed4@posting.google.com> <3D6A6238.A95AF7DA@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 22:47:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.central.cox.net 1030402024 68.12.51.201 (Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:47:04 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:47:04 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28434 Date: 2002-08-26T22:47:04+00:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: > Carmack didn't release DOOM as shareware. He released it as fee-ware, then This is wrong. You really should have read a bit more carefully. Wolf3D and Doom were released as shareware. You are thinking of their GPL releases, which are indeed downrev versions of their older titles. Until sometime around the release of Quake, ID's sole income sources were voluntarily submitted shareware fees and engine licenseing fees. > later re-released it as shareware. My question was, if you knew you didn't > have to pay for it ever, even on the first day, how many people would? > And this article answers the question with "if its as good as Wolf3D or Doom (in their day), then more than enough for the whole development staff to buy multiple ferraris" :-) >>The most popular computer game of all time, Doom > > Considering that Myst has *also* been quoted as being the most popular > computer game of all time, I'm not sure I trust either set of statistics. Doom came out before Myst. This is an old article.